Publications

The 2010 Federal Budget: Canadian Labour Congress Analysis

Posted: Thursday, 4 March 2010

The Budget contains no big surprises but is still a big disappointment. Despite the fact that unemployment is and will remain very high, economic stimulus measures effectively end after this year. A few very small new investments in jobs and skills will be mad… Read More

Canada's Labour Movement will Fight Unfair Cuts

Posted: Wednesday, 3 March 2010

CLC president Ken Georgetti and leaders of public sector unions are warning the federal government not to use the budget to cut public services or attack federal pension plans in order to pay off the deficit. “Let’s be clear,” Georgetti said, “Canada… Read More

Budget Watch

Posted: Thursday, 25 February 2010

Canadian Labour Congress Budget Priorities On March 4, 2010, the federal government will table a Budget that is widely expected to place a high priority on cutting the deficit through spending cuts, not on job creation. While temporary stimulus measures alr… Read More

Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On

Posted: Monday, 22 February 2010

Part One: Overall Achievements and Obstacles There has been a sharp decrease in institutional and political support by the Government of Canada for the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls during the period 2004 - 2009. This is tru… Read More

Report of the Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights

Posted: Tuesday, 16 February 2010

1. Introduction The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) supports legitimate efforts to combat terrorism which is in itself a serious attack on human rights, but argues that these efforts must always respect human rights norms. It is not po… Read More

Moving to a Green Economy with Good Jobs: Investment in Transit and Passenger Rail

Posted: Monday, 1 February 2010

A major medium- to long-term government investment in public transit would make a significant contribution to reduction of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, and would also create literally tens of thousands of new jobs. Such an investment would also more th… Read More

Canadian Labour Congress response to IRPA Regulatory Changes Regarding Temporary Foreign Workers

Posted: Sunday, 10 January 2010

The CLC has a long standing and critical interest in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program. Although, we were pleased to learn of regulatory changes being put forward, we are disappointed with their limited scope and imbalance between employers an… Read More

Dispatches from Copenhagen - Labour movement pushes just transition in climate agreement

Posted: Friday, 18 December 2009

As we begin the final hours of COP 15 in Copenhagen, our goal as an international trade union movement is to ensure that social and economic concerns are included in what had once been solely an environmental discussion. In simple terms, we want a fair, ambiti… Read More

CLC’s Hassan Yussuff leads labour fact-finding delegation to Mexico

Posted: Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Hassan Yussuff, CLC Secretary-Treasurer, headed a recent fact-finding mission to Mexico to investigate that government’s October 10th liquidation of the publicly-owned Central Light and Power Company (LFC). Subsequently, the government fired 44,000 electrica… Read More

Recession Watch Bulletin #3

Posted: Monday, 14 December 2009

This is the third in a series of analytical reports from the Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labour Congress looking at the impacts of the global economic crisis on the jobs, wages, and economic security of working Canadians. One Year In… Read More